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   [1] From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk> (50)
         Subject: Telos 140

   [2] From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk> (69)
         Subject: Language as an Open System, ed. Fehr and Kouba

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         Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 06:17:42 +0100
         From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
         Subject: Telos 140

From: Telos Press
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:00:19 -0400

October 15, 2007

Dear Friends of Telos,

Our Fall issue (#140) has just appeared, a
special issue on Peter Szondi and Critical
Hermeneutics. This is a first in the
English-speaking world. Szondi was a defining
figure in German literary criticism, especially
during the 1960s, and his work is currently
undergoing an exciting rediscovery on both sides
of the Atlantic. I have posted the Introduction
on our website, <http://www.telospress.com/>http://www.telospress.com .

Our book line continues to grow. Jean-Claude
Paye's Global War on Liberty is the most
comprehensive account of the expanding network of
security and surveillance that threatens civil
liberties everywhere. Our new translation of Carl
Schmitt's Theory of the Partisan has added an
important dimension to current political debate.
And on November 1, we will proudly present
Matthias K=FCntzel's Jihad and Jew-Hatred:
Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11, with an
introduction by Jeffrey Herf. This book=ADa
translation from the German with considerable
expansion=ADpoints to the central role of
antisemitism in the jihadist ideology behind contemporary terrorism.

Next year, not only will we be going online
through cooperation with HighWire Press, but we
will also celebrate our fortieth anniversary!
We've been at it since May of 1968. To recognize
this milestone, we will publish an anthology of
the writings of Paul Piccone, founder and
long-time editor of Telos. We will also offer a
free print subscription to the journal along with
purchase of the anthology. Watch our website for more details.

And our next issues are already in the works.
Upcoming themes: environmentalism, terrorism, a
special issue on Carl Schmitt, the legacy of
1968, Latin America, and more. Stay tuned.

Best wishes,

Russell A. Berman
Editor

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Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities
Computing | Centre for Computing in the
Humanities | King's College London |
http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26).
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         Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 06:19:38 +0100
         From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
         Subject: Language as an Open System, ed. Fehr and Kouba
From: Hypermedia Joyce Studies <hypermedia_joyce_at_yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:30:20 +0100 (BST)
Litteraria Pragensia is proud to announce the publication of its newest
title:
DYNAMIC STRUCTURE
(LANGUAGE AS AN OPEN SYSTEM)
eds. Johannes Fehr & Petr Kouba
ISBN 80-7308-139-3(paperback). 200pp.
Publication date: September 2007
Price: 12.00 (not including postage)
<http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/language_systems.html>http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/language_systems.html
This volume is dedicated to the theoretical legacy of Ferdinand de
Saussure, which is still challenging not only for linguistics, but for many
other disciplines. For Saussure, to conceive language as a system made
it possible to found linguistics as an autonomous scientific
discipline. However, if language could be seen and treated as a system, it had
consequences not only for linguistics, but also for esthetics,
anthropology, or cultural theory. With respect to Czech functional
structualism,
as developed by Jan Mukarovsky and others, it seems important that it
was in Prague that Saussurean thinking on language came in touch with
phenomenological philosophy. Since Husserl's work was already
authoritative at the beginning of the 30th, the confrontation of Saussure's
theory of language with phenomenological reflections on language was
inevitable. The interaction between structuralism and phenomenology then
continued, above all, in the philosophical work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty
. But if the interaction between s
tructuralist theory and phenomenology is in focus of this volume, it is
not so much for historical reasons; it is rather due to a mapping of
the possible views of language that issue from the confrontation of
structuralist and phenomenological tradition of thinking. With regard to
language, a high attention is paid to the post-phenomenological and the
post-structuarlist theories, too.
Contents:
I. System and Function
1) Johannes Fehr - "Language as a System. Revisiting Saussure"
2) Jan Sokol - "Language and Experience"
3) Ondrej Sladek - "Ferdinand de Saussure Interpreted by Jan
Mukarovsky: Reception and Revison"
II. Language and Thought
4) Michal Ajvaz - "Maurice Merleau-Ponty: A Love Affair between
Phenomenology and Structuralism"
5) Petr Urban - "Relationship of Thought and Language in Husserl's
Phenomenology"
6) Petr Kouba - "Beyond Phenomenology of Language"
7) Yong Ho Choi - "Saussure and Ricoeur at Odds with the Question of
Meaning"
III. Conditions and Limits of Subjectivity
8) Alice Klikova - "Lived Worlds as the Systems of Signs - Uexkull's
Bio-Semiotics"
9) Emil Volek - "Habitats of Language/Language Inhabited: from the
Umwelt to the Possible Worlds of Communication and Culture"
10) Josef Fulka - "The Lacanian Destiny of the Signifier"
11) Louis Armand - "Language and Interactivity"
Johannes Fehr lectures on the theory of language as Titular Professor
at the Philosophical Faculty at the University of Zurich, and since the
first of October 2001 he has been Deputy Head of Chair of the Collegium
Helveticum, Zurich. His publications include Saussure between
Linguistics and Semiology (2000) and Literature in the Digital Age (2003,
co-editor).
Petr Kouba works in the Centre for Theoretical Studies, Prague, and at
the Faculty of Philosophy of Charles University. His research is
focused on the philosophy of psychopathology. He is the author of The
Phenomenon of Mental Disorder (2006).
***For more information about Litteraria Pragensia books, please visit
our website at www.litterariapragensia.com
Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for
Computing in the Humanities | King's College London |
http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26).